Year 2 News

English In English we have read the story, the Tiger who came to Tea. The children have enjoyed reading and writing activities based on this text. We have planned and written our own versions of this story which have been really entertaining to read! Spellings This week our spellings are words ending in le Read More

Year 2 News 28.03.24

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English This week in English we have been reading, performing and writing African animal poems. We have talked about how poets use alliteration and rhyme. We have collected lots of right choice adjectives and verbs for our animals. Finally we wrote our own fantastic poems! Spelling This week in spellings we have been looking Read More

Year 2 News 22.03.24

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English This week in English, we have been researching facts about African land animals using the chrome books. We recapped the features of a non-chronological report and looked at some examples. We then had a go at writing our own reports based on an animal of our choice. We split our writing into three Read More

Year 2 News 15.03.24

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English We have started a new non-fiction unit all about African animals. In English lessons this week, we have been researching and finding facts about zebras, giraffes, lions and elephants. Here we are sorting fact sentences into paragraphs. We read the fact to decide if it was about the animal’s appearance, diet or habitat. Read More

World Book Day 2024

08/03/2024 · No comments yet

Year 2 had such a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. Thank you for all your support; the children looked brilliant in their ‘adjective’ costumes and thoroughly enjoyed all the activities. We started the day with a special assembly; Wendy from Truman Books came to show the children the £1 books that Read More

Year 2 News 1.3.2024

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Super skipping This week we took part in a fantastic skipping workshop where we learnt lots of different skills. We had a go at a single and a double bounce then even braved a run and jump on the giant rope! The instructors were very impressed with our determination and resilience. We have been Read More

Year 2 News 23.02.24

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English Do you know how an elephant got its trunk? We found out how a smelly adventure and an encounter with a crocodile led to an elephant finding its nose in our work on Tinga Tinga tales this week. We began our topic by discussing what we liked about the story and who our Read More

Year 2 News 9.02.24

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English We have loved reading George’s Marvellous Medicine. The children thoroughly enjoyed listening and reading along to the story. Yesterday we wrote some fantastic reviews of the story. children wrote about their favourite parts and characters. Perhaps you could try another of Roald Dahl’s books at home? Let us know if you would like Read More

Year 2 News 02.02.24

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Florence Nightingale Workshop We really enjoyed our workshop on Tuesday with ‘Florence Nightingale’. She told the children all about her life; the children were able to share their knowledge and also ask lots of interesting questions. They then enjoyed the teddy bear hospital activity. Finally the children were given some Victorian objects that Florence Read More

Year 2 News 26.01.24

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English This week we have been writing our magic medicine instructions. Children have used time words and bossy verbs in their steps. We even wrote a warning to add to the bottle! We then moved onto our new narrative unit. We are going to be writing a story about a character who takes some Read More

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